What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Product Designer position at Materialize?
About the role:
We’re looking for our first full-time, in-house designer to join our dynamic, collaborative, and remote-friendly Materialize team!
You will be working on our Cloud product, which encompasses every part of the Materialize platform, and have the unique, hands-on opportunity to make a huge impact. In addition to designing the end-to-end experience of the product, the lead designer will help test prototypes and features in beta with customers and develop a design system for the whole company.
You’re not required to have _everything_ listed below; if this ad speaks to you at all, please apply! Above all, we are looking for a designer who would thrive in a start-up environment, where there are myriad opportunities to bring their experience, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit to define and own the user experience.
You will:
- Design user interfaces and flows that delight users and help them get things done
- Prototype design concepts
- Solicit customer feedback and run user tests with prototypes or real code
- Give and receive frequent feedback with engineers as the team implements new features
- Lead the design vision for Materialize
- Coordinate with stakeholders across the organization: marketing, sales, product, engineering, and leadership
You are:
- An effective and proactive communicator--verbal, written, and drawn
- Talented at creating prototypes for quickly proposing solutions as well as designing refined visuals
- Transparent in your process and brave enough to show in-progress work
- Comfortable with ambiguity and changing company needs
- Collaborative, kind, and respectful to your colleagues
You have:
- A portfolio of work that demonstrates deep problem solving, testing hypotheses, and delivering high-quality results
- Experience designing B2B enterprise products from concept to completion
- Curiosity about new ideas and desire to learn from missteps
- Proven ability to work across teams and functions to derive the input needed to make design decisions
- An aptitude for educating coworkers, explaining why a design is the way it is, and discussing alternatives’ pros and cons
- Experience at other startups and/or small teams
Bonus points:
- You’ve built user interfaces targeted at a technical audience before
- UX research experience
- Team management experience
- Experience in the database industry
- There are low-quality whiteboard diagrams or scratch paper drawings in your portfolio because they solved a real problem
- Experience with fit-and-finish interaction design: clickables, animations, etc.
- Extra points if you’re in New York, NY or wouldn’t mind visiting occasionally
- Major plus: You have ever tried to do anything with the AWS developer dashboard